″BY THE PAST, THROUGH THE PRESENT, TO THE FUTURE″.

The Finding in the Temple, also called Christ among the Doctors, the Disputation in the Temple and variations of those names, is an episode in the early life of Jesus depicted in chapter 2 of the Gospel of Luke. It is the only event of the later childhood of Jesus mentioned in a canonical gospel. In the episode, Jesus – at the age of twelve – accompanies Mary, Joseph, and a large group of their relatives and friends to Jerusalem on many pilgrimages. On the day of their return, Jesus remained in the Temple. Mary and Joseph returned home believing he was among their group when he was not. After a day of travel they realised Jesus was missing and returned to Jerusalem, finding him three days later. He was found in the Temple in discussion with the elders, "listening to them and asking them questions". When admonished by Mary, Jesus replied: "How is it that you sought me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?" The Finding in the Temple is frequently shown in art. This representation, titled The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple, is an oil-on-canvas painting produced by William Holman Hunt in 1860. It now hangs in the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in Birmingham, England.Painting credit: William Holman Hunt

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"It is one of the greatest weapons of the Asura (Satan) at work when you are taught to shun beauty. It has been the ruin of India. The Divine manifests in the psychic as love, in the mind as knowledge, in the vital as power and in the physical as beauty. If you discard beauty it means that you are depriving the Divine of this manifestation in the material and you hand over that part to the Asura " ~ Mirra Alfassa

TRIANGLE OF LOVE

We may represent love as a triangle, each of the angles of which corresponds to one of its inseparable characteristics...

FIRST ANGLE: The first angle of our triangle of love is that love knows no bargaining.

SECOND ANGLE: The second angle of the triangle of love is that love knows no fear.

THIRD ANGLE: The third angle of the triangle of love is that love knows no rival, for in it is always embodied the lover's highest ideal. It may be that in many cases human love is misdirected and misplaced, but to the person who loves, the thing he loves is always his own highest ideal...One may see his ideal in the vilest of beings, and another in the highest of beings; nevertheless, in every case it is the ideal alone that can be truly and intensely loved.

                      - SWAMI VIVEKANANDA (Bhakti Yoga)

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S SONNET ON LOVE

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments. Love is not love

Which alters when it alteration finds,

Or bends with the remover to remove.

O no! it is an ever-fixed mark

That looks on tempests and is never shaken;

It is the star to every wand'ring bark,

Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks

Within his bending sickle's compass come;

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,

But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

If this be error and upon me prov'd,

I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd.

ON FAITH

"If you gave me the sun in one hand and the moon in the other, I should not give it up."

                        - Prophet Mohammad (on being asked to keep quiet about his faith)

"As ye believe, so it will be."

                  - Jesus the Christ

‘For when the One Great Scores comes

To mark against your name, He writes - not that you won or lost – But How you played the Game’ - Alumnus Football: Grantland Rice

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Hi! I am Anindya Moitra from Kolkata, India. My journey in Wikipedia began in 2008 and in Wikimedia Commons began in December 2006. My humble contributions in Wikipedia and its other sister concerns are mere drops in the ocean.